![]() ![]() Starting school, improving her English in an ESL classroom, making new friends, and taking part in a school play are challenges in Jude’s new life, as is dealing with the ugliness of Islamophobia and being brave: both for her pregnant mother and to fulfill her promise to her beloved brother, now missing in a war zone. When military fighting comes dangerously near their hometown, Jude and her mother leave their home and family to come to the United States, where Jude’s uncle lives with his American wife and their daughter. The first signs of things going wrong in her world are arguments between Jude’s older brother, who is dedicated to the cause of a free and democratic Syria, and their father, who wants stability even if that means allegiance to the oppressive President Assad. ![]() 1/15) latest book is a middle-grade and middle-school novel written in free verse and narrated by a Syrian girl named Jude. ![]() Warga’s ( My Heart and Other Black Holes, rev. Intermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 342 pp. ![]()
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